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Hi everybody !

Introduction :

For my first build here, i wanted to show a build that doesnt get the love it deserve in hardcore.

This build is fun and easy, and very safe : it makes you nearly unkillable.

The damage is good, but wont be enough to clear a 65 Grift.

For this very reason, this build is for hardcore player who want a safe build to farm 50+ grift, or want to push up to grift 60 without taking much risk.

The goal of the build is to tank everything, by making use of 50% damage reduction of call of the ancient, 50% damage reduction of unity, and 40% damage reduction of the 4 piece waste set.

This is enough to storm trough elite packs without taking any damage even in 55+ grift.

To kill stuff, i went for rend with the damage multiplier of the 2 wastes pieces and the 6 IK set. The cubed lamentation allow us to stack rend twice on everything, and the CoE ring is the icing on the cake.

Gameplay :

Before the rift guardian :

The goal here is to make the guardian spawn as fast as possible, because the guardian can take some time to kill, and you can take risks because of the tankiness of the build.

So you need to rend mobs and continue forward to pull more and more mobs. Dont be afraid to pull several elite packs, you can't die anyway.

So just pull the whole rift, elites included, and then you come and go through, rending everywhere.

For the rift guardian :

The tricky part !

On the guardian, the fury generation is a problem.

The goal is to generate fury with everything you can to keep Wrath of the berserker up.

Spam warcry on cooldown !

The boss spawn add ? whirlwind in, enjoy fury !

The boss spawn some poison, ice, or fire AOE ? whirlwind in, and enjoy the superstition passive fury !

A channeling close to spawn boss time ? keep it for the fight, and enjoy free fury !

For now, i cleared a 60 grift easily with this build and gameplay, with 600 paragon and not a very good stuff (i lack a lot of ancient pieces !)

I think with some phishing and upgrade in stuff and paragon, i think can clear a 61 or 62, without taking any risks.

I will be pushing some for the next days, so more on that later !

Build variations :

For high Grift :

The ancient parthan defender can usefull, in combination with a Thunderfury-Wyrdward companion, and some freeze/stun on it on the stuff. It can offer a nice survivability boost !

Nemesis can be nice to create some juicy density.

There is also one thing that have potential, but i couldnt make it work properly :

Use strongarm bracers with the whirlwind rune that pulls enemy towards you. Its a nice boost of damage and artificial density, but the fury management become a nightmare. I was able to clear a Grift 58 with that, but it make the build a lot more risky, and it's absolutly not it's original philosophy. (You can run out of fury on low density and on grift, and no fury = no life on hit, and a Wrath of the berserker that run off cooldown. Scary)

If someone manage to build this and is able to manage his fury, i would love to know how !

For Torment Rift and low Grift farming :

I use nemesis, and swap cubed lamentation for cubed hex pants : One rend with 25% more damage is enough to kill everything, and the fury cost is nice too, when density can be low in some case.

With this, this build become nice too to farm fast without taking any risks.

In a group, you can swap unity for either skull grasp to have a nice damage boost on whirlwind, or zodiac, for an easy time on berserker cooldown even with shitty rift with low density.

if you have any question, constructive criticism, or insults, feel free to comment, i will read and answer.

I will also try to put on youtube the gameplay of a 58 or 59 rift in the next days, to show you a bit of gameplay.

Good Luck on your hardcore progression everyone !

Update 09/09/2015 Grift 60 down with this build !

First try, no close call, and i have 2 minutes left to spare. I think this build have potential.